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UOMMODORE NUTT & MINNIE WARREN, add 11 est Man and Bridesmaid to GENERAL TOM TIIUMB I'WIFE, will give T 0 LEVEES daily, and appear in a a ll,:te of Songs, Dances, Duets, &c. &:. Change of Pro -.llnie at each Levee. ktAd, Mission, 2a. ; back seats and gallery, ; reserved 28each. Children under 10 years of age half-price in • kii , l 3 8 . pl aces. ••••._ 4ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. 1 1 and Mrs. GERMAN REED. with Mr. st ,- JOHN PARRY, will appear in THE RIVAL COM NI 'nB (for a limited number of representations). To be ttrowed by THE BARD an d HIS BIRTHDAY . (M r. an d li r e GERMAN REED). Shakespearian Visions of Rosa- Witch, Touchstone, and Ariel, illustrated by Mrs. Ger fitr Reed. Conc uding with MR:•3. ROSELE AI AT THE : d k.-S IDE, by Mr. JOHN PARRY. titjerY Evening (except Saturday) at 8. A Morning Repre vation every Saturday, at 3 o'clock. Unreserved seats, ls. la ti stalls, 3s. ; stall spring chairs, ss. Stalls may be 'aired in advance, without lee, at the Gallery HEOXF 0 R D, e), OXFORD STREET, W. c,?The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). „, I PHEE AUX ENFERS (Offenbach's brilliant Opera ~.‘ " uque), is achieving* an unprecedented success. Vide, the fi "King- of Bceotia ;" "The Hymn to Bacchus ;" and "Hillilio " Chorus, bv Eurydice, Diana, Cupid, ittiat-horus ; the side-splittin , " Couplets," by Minerva, n a, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and 6 Chorus ; a- d fival Minuet 4 Galop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz t 417, Barrie Tyrrell, and Walmsley; Messrs. Greene and ascetics. pi s , and Revival of NOWITA (Norma, Miss Russell); Adel , Madame Maria); and Selections from MARTHA and TRAVIATA ; together with Locke's celebrated Music Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. - **‘E DESCENT OF MERCURY, by Mr. Jas. LF ISIONSTRE CHARME, by M. SILVESTRE. " be IPAUBANS in their famous Character Sketches bedc/ibeilY, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON RAY LITTLE 808, and all the procurable Talent of ay. Ins trumental Solos, a c., &e. bok..diziesion—Area 6d. ; stalls and balcony, Is.; private 'es,lo 6d. eE A HALL. I' The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). i(jttrllME and BOUQUET, the NEW OPTICAL ILLIT troh", in which the whole resources of the establishment are ,i` i ght into requisition, written by Mr. W. F. Vandervell. e usual Operatic Selections, the Anthropophaginian, ac. qV'olnedy byßandal', T. Stacey, W. Hilton, and the l,drous Indian Rope Trick by Messrs. W. Hilton and ley . C • °flaw Illustrations of Negro character by LITTLE 808. ~„. ...2 idmission—Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is. it O YA L CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL, Commercial-street, Shoreditch. (Close to the Great Eastern Terminus'. Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NUGENT. .CIAL ATTRACTIONS UP TO CHRISTMAS. T k er atio Selections, Stc. Prima Donna, Miss ELLIsON. ;11)",e„ Comic strength of the Company includes ANNIE Ip Ig NELLY POWERJ. G. FORDE, WEST, GEO. rit 4 h ,`„ ,l OlJRNF Mr. HERBERT, J. F. ALEXANDER and I I~LES'ERERES CAVALLINI, the great Italian qipi"l, first a a d n Gmnasts, from the Cirque Napoleon, I'aris, ppe y arame in England. crinanent prices—Area, 4d. ; balcony, 6d. ; stalls, ls. Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. GAF VILLE. 4 _______ ADANIE TUSS AU D'S EXHIBITION, ,„..___ established 20 years , at the Bazaar, Baker-street. Of`U;W A DDITION.—A 14 ull-lenn th PORTRAIT MODEL .tqI ( "ItI.LER, taken from lite, and corrected from the Cast lit i .. e n by Doctor Donovan, of the Phrenologic -1 School, 111, ' 41,1 , is now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Open from Il a.m. till 10 p in. , „......Admittance One Shilling ; extra r ooms , Sixpence. NRC 4 YLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, 1 ,1,t v „ Piccadilly. the celebrated Pagan'ni Cornet, will play diirinz Guat ,7 B' Waltz, Wapping* Old Stairs, Sally in our Paust, and other novelties. Logi Curti, Chef d'Or 'lltor", has arranged for this occasion selections from Tro e, Martha, Huguenots, with a series of new dance music. Admission, One Shilling. Manager—M. GRENET. EE T H.—Mr. ESKELL'S PATENT,—The , I llik oh eclusiv e right to this Patent 'was secured to Mr. rit , ‘ of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, by her Ma 'loyal seal (July 17, 1860), and can only be procured at ;qatil'ldence, where specimens maybe seen, and every infor- Ni a n can be obtained. Under this I'atent, Artificial Teeth, i ll tit a lifetime, are made, and fitted in a few hours without Bader extractions. They support loose teeth, and protect tic Ritras ; their resemblance to nature is perfects ticatio and un and they are guaranteed for man and `tli s "atiotatatiu. Treatise on the subject sent for seven stamps. ons . OPINIONS OF TILE PRESS. hig• kskell, dental-surgeon, has succeeded in producing teeth, and so . constructing them that they last their V l / 4 1: 8 e a lifetime. . . The process has been patented, ' 3 44 01 /Uses to be most valuablc."—Court Journal, August hot s urprising novelty in the adaptation of artificial teeth plitt"Runt by a patented principle, which secures the most t aid, combined with the reatest ease and agreeable ance."—Morning Adverti g ser, August 9, 1860. , ec aYed teeth stopped, &c. Terms strictly moderate. Bond-street. eITY SHOW-ROOMS DINNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA has been, durieg thirty years, emphatically sanctioned by the Medical Profession, and universally accepted by the Public, as the Best Remedy for Acidity of the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, Gout, and Indigestion, and as a Mild Aperient for delicate constitutions, more esp •cially for Ladies and Children. 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S. p t 111 4 , [ l l 9 NMOUT H, Devon —Mr. ANDREW ; l ot,':areceived instruction ' s to SELL a Gentle ,Vc r„ 'NSIDENCE, with grounds of about 3 acres. The Os „ j Pleasantly situate; contains dining, two drawing i-kor,;`,,ae bed-rooms three dressing-rooms, library, house qe 'e, f,„ . °OM. and offices,' conservatory, garden, three-stall 41 ,1),V , lep,;° f oo r achhouses, &e. I t stands on higli groutul, and a Oy• N orn it are /4'oo 1. Distance from the sea about iti l i £2,6oo.—Particul Ira and cards to view at the ventral Ekate Offices, corner of Little Carter -lane, St. OY„ ,', h 1 1 ,` 1 ,,t , FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, N . ;'mmediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail- C . ; 1 4 4 C l lus, K ing,'s -cross. 1 4 N tr t° a—fler Most Gracious Maje - , ty the QUEEN. t est,:a—rlis Royal }lightness the Prince of WA LE S,K.G , a t -- -Ilis Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. ki i i ,bill th r reasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. tliii l gil co — roue and urgent appea.s of the si^k poor for a- T4 l Wt a t C t ytel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the or e e at as humane, as the medical officers are daily obliged 11,; , 1 , Mei, °U t - patients many distressing cases which. with Pre,iiittte funds they would gladly admit into the wards. I'li B es of the'Hospital are capable of containing 500 11 :tb,,, tt ° 8 't r, g al is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on kts.44l. nt ributions and legacies, which are received by Ai' e ll're r e , i '' Edward alas terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also kt4 -¢s lie ' Co Edward and Co.' Drummond and Co. ; Herries and ll;l al:L(l ° a and Co.' 'Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, k;_t k p?. ; t ,,,- i Glyn an'd Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay 111,7',5, 1 4 son and Co. ; Williams, Duacon, and Co.; 'Folab, ;"„eY, and co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; ""Pitof .4 Co. ; I. flamed and Co., Liverpool ; and at i from 10 till 5. STAIIFORD S. SUITII SecretarY. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free for 64 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. Essay In Hair, id. PIMPLE REMOVEIL—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness &c. 2s. ild.; by post for 40 stemps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS'S FACE POWDER, ls.; sent for 14 stamps ; Eye Colour, 38. ed., or 54 stamps. Skin tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or 60 stamps. Bloom of Roses, 35. 6d., or 64 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London. N°. 22,612. NEW NOVEL BY TUE AUTHOR, OF " WYLDER'S ITAND." This Day, at all Libraries, in 3 vols., UNCLE SILAS. By J. SHERIDAN LE FANU, A NOVEL. Author of "Wylder's hand," tto. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. CAPTAIN GRANT'S NILE JOURNAL. To-morrow will be published, price 155., A WALK ACROSS AFRICA: OR, DOMESTIC SCENES FROM MY NILE JOURNAL. By JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT, Captain lI.M. Bengal Army. One vol. Svo., with Map of the Author's route. W. Blackwoo I and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Just published, price 25., THE BEAUTIFUL DEMON. A Talc of Love, Intrigue, Treachery, and Revenge. Also, uniform with the above, price 2s. each, INCOGN I TA. 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London : Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross, S.W.; and all booksellers. Demy Bvo., extra cloth, 6s. 6d., LIFE : Its; NATURE, VARIETIES, and I'IIENOMENA. By LEO IT. GRINDON. Third Edition. " Mr. Grindon's book has reached, but will not stop at, the third edition. It is the work of a scholar, a Christian, and a man of real science."—Morning Herald. " To those who delight in the exercise of their intellectual powers, these very thoughtful and beautifully-written reflec tions will be a welcome boon, and the source long afterwards, we may rest assured, of many fruitful meditations and plea sant memories." —Sun. " The reader will find in it much thour;ht and much read ing. There is plenty to think up , n, plenty to study, plenty fo entertain."—lllustrated London News." London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. Crown Bvo., cloth, 400 pages, price 55., H IDDEN SPRINGS. By the Rev. J. PARKER, of Manchester. '"The sermons of Dr, Parker are especial y noticeable for clearness of thought and . language. All seems as if it were written with a pencil of I.ght. . . . . N tore is every where in the ascendant, and hence its matchless force There is no speakin.; for speaking's sake, no display of any kind ; every word is an arrow directed to the mark."—Bri tish Standard. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. 280 pp., cloth, lettered, price 35., 'VEGETABLE COOKERY.—Pastry, Pickling, V &c. This volume supplies a want long fc't. Cookery books exist in abundance, but they relate almost exclusively to the preparation of dishes from animal food. 1 his work is devoted entirely to the proper cooking of vegetable., to preserving, pickling, the preparation of sauces, soups, beverages, etc, &c., and firms a complete treatise upon the subject. Vegetables, fruits, &c., constitute tbi , halt of our daily food : here is an essay upon the best possible preparation of this half. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. 50110 ESTATE, HOUSE, AND GENERAL BUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requiring Freehold or Leasehold Property, or having . Business and Houses to be dispose of, should apply to Mr. CHARLES MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer, 25, Gerrard-street, Soho. W. Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail way Compensations, &c. Rents Collected. TMEET H. -IMPROVED MECHANICAL DENTlSTRY.—Professional abilities and great artistic skill have been most successfully combined in the production of ARTIFICIAL 'TEETH upon a new principle. The real value or the perfection of the art of Dentistry will be experi enced by all wishing to avail themselves of professional assistance by consulting M. ALBERT, 34, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury. whose experience has enabled him to effect such admirable, convenient contrivances by artificial means, and which are so perfectly efficient. BED•ROOM CANDLES. "RICE'S CANDLES, which will not drop grease when carried."---Thin, very hard candles. sold in boxes is. and 3s. each, are recomnaendei as the best carriers. _ _ " EXTRA HARD 5.12 CHAMBER CANDLES," sold in boxes 28. each. Thicker candles intended for those who will not burn thin. " SHERWOOD ECONOMIC BED LIGHTS," in packets of 36 candles for one shilling, intended for use where cheapness is a great object, will be found an improve ment on the ordinary candles, as they gutter less. Special candle ,ticks to fit thin candles, ls. and 2s. 6d. each ; reducing sockets, making them fit any candlesticks, 2d. each. TOILET SO&PS. I Sherwood Brown Windsor Soap, with a pleasant scent. Belmont Glycerine Soap, contains Price's Glycerine. Camphor and Glycerine Soap, fo tender skins in winter. GLYCERINE. SIIERWOODOLE Price's Glycerine" may be Cleans gloves and removes had from any Chemist, in grease and other stains. capsuled bottles, lettered Perfumed, in capsuled bot " Price's Patent," from 6d. ties, 6d. and is. each. upwards. Impure Glycerine has been sold en the state ment that it is "equal to Prices." Retail throug ffholesale by Prtoen Patent Lon, %11 any Grocer. t Candle Company (Limited), don lAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN . EFFECTUAL REIVIEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the acuity pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption it' effects arc truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 13ad., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address are engraved on the stamp. g F h L H m o D lb c o u r r n ls , H Ap o l n - d C oy RI A IN Ex G, R F O L S U S, I S D 6u 24 R B L , I H NG i Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, Is. 6d., or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London,— ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma nently— Ladies' Hair from 7s. 6d. ; Gentlemen's from ss. The Dye is sold at 3s. (id, or sent free for 54 stamps. It is most easy of use. ITAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holb orn , London.—A LEX. ROSS'S DEPILA TORY remo ves without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face , neck, and arms. 3s. 6d; sent the same day.as ordered by post for 54 stamps. e - • • r . ''\\• 67 6 . 1 -I:rg ' 4 EI . , . 1111 ( - - • WI E -7 WOW ...„01, D 115 d or - •t - 14rr. alfr\ 4. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1864. EMEMBER! WE WAIT SUPPER for you 1,) after the Covent Garden Opera, at EVANS'. Fail the prophet's mantle in relation to the future issues of war, I think,' can venture to promise that against these lines no force of Federals is soon likely to prevail. Daring the fine autumnal days of October both sides have lately busied themselves in strength ening their earthworks, until it would be a difficult task for either party to surmount his opponent's lines, even though undefended by men. On the south side of the River James and front of Peters. burg the Confederate lines are still stronger, inas much as the ditch in front of them is deeper and the stockades (consisting of pointed stakes stuck in the ground and sloping outwards at an angle of 45 degrees) are repeated, running in double, treble, and sometimes in quadruple lines. The language of an experienced Confederate artillery officer in reference to General Pickets's liaes in front of Ber muda Hundred was, that they are so strong they cou ) d be held by a parcel of old apple women. Upon the north side of the river there has existed lately by tacit agreement a kind of truce between the pickets, so that there is no difficulty in riding without molestation or danger along the whole length of the lines ; but upon the south side the Bang between the pickets is every day incessant and continuous, and it is impossible to show an inch of head above the works with out the risk of a bullet through the brain. The firing is kept up on both sides with a view to pre. vent the possibility of desertion. There is in both armies such weariness of the war that desertions have been numerous during the Mit three months; but latterly thelnflux of Federals has far exceeded the outflow of Confederate desertions. It is probable that the invitation held out to Yankee deserters by the Confederate authorities in their general order, No. 65, has tended to deplete the Northern ranks, inasmuch as nine out of ten Federal deserters,bring a copy of this order in their hands when they enter the Confederate lines, and claim the privileges and promises which it offers, and which I need hardly say are scrupulously extended to them. As this general order may be not without interest to some of your readers, I append a copy of it : _ _ in Hamoaze, and will have Plymouth to•day or to-morrow for Gibraltar and Malta. The iron paddlewheel steam sloop Trident, 3, Commander Charles T. Balfour, from the Arediterr ranean, is hourly expected at Plymouth. The following appointments have been made in the Royal Naval reserve :—To be Sub.-Lieut., Wihiam Joseph Whereat; to be Honorary Lieut., Charles Gribble, MO PERSONS SEEKING LANDED EE*A. ATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY IttSIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPER LIES GENERALLY- To BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, ➢Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing availed selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS OFF OPERTIFS Wishing to Sell or Let can em brace the °ppm tanity that the medium of this Register 'Words, by sending the partict!ars of their properties to the Estate Offices, 67, Chanceryiane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, where the property is of an eligible character, thereby avoid ing the disadvantages of delay and its attendant incon veniences. Demolition of the Great Exhibition Building Althomgh yesterday morning exhibited emphati cally that sort of atmospheric complexion which so fully justifies Lord Brougham in leaving " merry England "in November and spending his winter on the shores of the Mediterranean, a very large crowd indeed assembled in South Kensington to witness the scientific demolition of the last of the great sec tions of the exhibition building. There were a great many carriages and thousands of people on foot, both in the Cromwell and Exhibition roads, whilst the windows of all the aristocratic residences in the neighbourhood were filled with spectators evidently firmly relying on the skill of the Sappers and Miners to carry the critical work of explosion to a perfectly safe conclusion. THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur chaser is introduced throwch Messrs. Lumley's Agency, and then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. 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Adjutant and Inspecton.General's Office, Richmond, Virginia, Aug. 15, 1864. It having been represented to the War Department that there are numbers of foreigners entrapped by artifice and fraud into the military and naval service of the United States wh3 would gladly withdraw from further participa. tion in the inhuman warfare waged against a people who have never given them a pretext for hostility, and that there are many inhabitants of the United States now retained in that service against their will who are averse to aiding in the unjust war now being prosecuted against the Confe derate States ; and it being also known that these men are prevented from abandoning such compulsory service by the difficulty they experience in escaping therefrom, it is ordered that all such persons coming within the lines of the Confederate armies shall be received, pro tected, and supplied with means of subsistence until such of them as desire it can bo forwarded to the most convenient points on the border, when all facilities will be afforded them to return to their homes. (By Order) S, Coornn, Adjutant and Inspector General. To this order is subjoined a translation into French, and another into German, and it is circulated in the Federal army as widely as possible, not to mention Chat it is daily printed in the Richmond journals, of which many copies find their way into the Fede. ral ranks, But there is reason to think that if its circulation was still wider among the Yankee soldiers the fruit that it would bear would be still more abundant. I am happy to roport that Gen. Longstreet is at present quite freo from the nervous sensibility in his right arm from which for some time he suffered. The nerves of motion arc still entirely paralysed, and the arm is almost useless, but he is able slightly to move the fingers, and it is the opinion of army surgeons that he will regain plenary use of it from 18 months to two years, when the nervous tissue shall have had time to repair itself. His general health and spirits are excellent, and his confidence in the ability of his soldiers to hold the Confedes rate lince, and to keep the enemy out of Richmond for an unlimited period iy unabated. It is a strong testimony to Gen. Longstreet's value as a soldier that each of the three great captains of Secessia— Leo, Beuuregarcl, and Johnston esteems him equally, and desires his presence by their side. Upon the 18thainst. Beauregard telegraphed from Jacksonsville, in Alabama, soliciting Longstreet's compatiy in the West, but it was decided that he could not be spared from his old army corps before Richmond. It is now a little over two years since the closing ceremony of the Exhibition took place, and when the last audience might be seen streaming out of the various entrances which are now only so many heaps of ruins. The treasures of art, of science, and of industry have since then been scattered to the four winds of heaven; in the interval there have been almost as much skill, labour, and per• severance concentrated on the work of demolition as" had previously been devoted to that of erection ; and now, on the spot where a vast palace of indus try so lately reared its head in triumph—where hundreds of thousands of people had been a whole season daily congregated to be instructed and amused—where great organs had pealed and per fumed fountains had sparkled—where representa• tives of all the peoples of the world might have been seen hustling each other in friendly eagerness to participate in the spectacle—there is nothing now left but a heap of the most melancholy of ruins, namely, those of a new building. The plough has passed over Jerusalem —or, to use a more trite but still more apposite simile, " the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces," have all vanished, and almost literally left " not a rack behind." The process of demolition has been throughout entrusted to the skilled and steady hands of the Royal Engineers, and the agent used has been that terrible gunpowder which is so difficult to work with safety. The Sappers, however, have ' found out the secret, for the explosion which took place yesterday morning was about the thirtieth which had been found necessary for the destruction of so vast an edifice, and like all its predecessors it was perfectly successful, and so skilfully managed that the frail hoarding which surrounds the ruins was not shaken in the slightest degree, nor did a single brick or fragment of a brick fiy over into the adjoining street. Nay, so admirably calculated had been the strength and direction of the ex. plosion that it would have been quite possible for a man to have stood at the southern entrance whilst the charge was being fired, and to have come away completely unharmed when the whole building had become a mass of ruins. The mining party consisted of a sergeant and thirteen men, under the command of Lieute nant Knocker, RE., and a corporal who had charge of the electrical apparatus. The machine which has been used in all these txplosions is a recent invention of some German electrician, and is calculated to play an important part in future warlike operations. Had wo had it in the Crimean war hundreds of valuable lives .might have been saved, and General Todleben's famous earthworks might have turned out not quite so impregnable. It is a small case, not larger than an American clock, and although able, as was seen yesterday, to blow up one of the largest edifices in London, might be conveniently carried about in a bend. The name by which it is known in the ser. vice—namely, The Frictional Machine"—Suggests the novel mode in which the electric shuck is generated. When the top is taken off two discs are seen rotating on an axle, which communicates with a handle outside the box, and these are composed of ebonite, a composite material, which is believed to be the best non-conductor which has yet been invented. When these discs are made:to rotate by the turning of the handle outside, friction is set up with a pad placed beneath them in the box, which pad is composed of an amalgam of zinc and mer cury, and the result of the friction is the generation of the electric spark. Between the discs a steel point stands up, and as the disc turns the point acts as a conductor, and carries the fluid along to the wire outside, not, however, until a signal has been given, and by the pulling of a trigger all interrup tion to the current is removed. This beautiful machine was most skilfully handled by the corporal in charge, and did its work with all the precision of clockwork and all the harmlessness of the most simple mechanical operation. The building which was destroyed yesterday morning will be well remembered by the public as the southern entrance facing the Crom well-road. The fagade was large and massive, and the great object was to prevent its falling out , . wards into the road. By a very skilful piece of engineering, Lieutenaet Knocker fulfilled this in tention with entire success, and caused the four walls to "cave in" with the perfect safety to all surrounding space and objects to which we have be fore alluded. The process was something in this fashion. The front wall or facade " was counter sunk" at a couple of feet from the ground, that is to say, a row of holes were bored at an agle of 45 deg., and a very low charge of powder placed in each. These were first ignited, and the result was so to weaken the wall, as that the latter, although still standing, could be easily brought down by a very slight additiorial force. The plan was in fact ex actly similar to that by which the American axe man brings down the monarchs of the forest, viz., cutting two-thirds through the trunk, and then dragging down the tree in the direction re quired. In this case the fagade having been thus weakened, full charges were applied all round the remaining three sides of the building, and these when tumbling down dragged the facade inwards and along with them, thus preventing the casting of a single brick or fragment of a brick into the Cromwell-road. The whole operation of destruc tion which, if carried out Blackfriarsebridge fashion, by human labour with pickaxe and crowbar, would have occupied at least three months, was iu this case brought to a successful termination in about as many minutes. The first explosion, namely, that which "countersank" the facade, was scarcely noticeable, and the second, which brought down the whole building in crumbling masses of ruins, was litae louder than a pistol.shot. A cloud of dust rose into the air, a rumbling noise was heard, and the next minute there was nothing standing over the whole site of the great Exhibition building except Mr. Morrish's once famous refreshment rooms, and which we understand have been handed over to the authorities of the Horticultural Gar, dens. The ruins took the shape of large masses of brickwork, the tenacity of which testified creditably to the good faith in which the building contract had been fulfilled—heaps of single bricks from por tions of the wall which have been closest to the powder had received the strongest shock; and still smoking masses of mortar and other rubbish, where but a few moments before had stood a stately edi fice, under whose porch hundreds of thousands of persons had passed in and out during the Exhibi• tion season. There is nothing now left to be done with the great triumph of Captain Fowke's archi• tectural genius hut to cart it away. The re moval of the great domes was a tedious and difficult task, but we understand was effected With much less sacrifice of human life than had THE CONFEDERATE STATES. (From the 'Special Correspondent of the Times.) RICHMOND, Oct. 27. Your readers will probably have been so surfeited with the fanfizronades of the Northern journals and with the self-laudations of Gen. Sheridan on his success in the Valley on the 19th inst., that they will not thank me for recurring to that theme. But it seems tome desirable that they should learn that these extravagant jubilees, assisted by the nonsense, to which Mr Stanton has not scrupled to put his hand, about the presence in the Valley of General Longstreet and 12,000 additional troops, are only electioneering dodges in Mr Lincoln's interest. Upon the very day upon which Eli-ly converted a great success into a greater disaster, General Long street, greeted by the enth'isiastic welcome of his old soldiers, was resuming command of the First Army Corps, under General Lee, in the following words : Head quarters, Ist Army Corps, Oct. 19, 1864. The undersigned, with deep and grateful emotions, re sumes command of his Army Corps. Although separated from it since the first action of the past eventful campaign, the history of your share in that campaign is not unknown to him. He has marked with pride and pleasure the success which has attended your heroic efforts under the accom plished commander who has so worthily led you. Soldiers, let us not go backward I Let the lst Corps be always true to itself ! We have in the past a brilliant and unsurpassed record. Let our future eclipse it in our eagerness for glory, our love of country, and our determination to beat the enemy. J. LONOSTREET, Lieutenant-General. The Confederate army in the Valley upon the 19th inst. was the same force which was sent there in June, which menaced Washington early in July, and was commanded from the commencement by the same leader, General Early. The only aug mentation which it had received was the division of General•Kershaw, which loft the neighbourhood of Richmond early in August. The Northern public has again and again been assured that " the rebel army in the Valley has ceased to exist." Yet upon the 19th inst. this same shadowy army assumed the initiative, utterly routed two Federal corps, which in their flight annihilated a third corps of their as sociates, and at 1 in the afternoon of that day the Confederates had captured 18 pieces of cannon, and inflicted upon their enemy a loss of 5,000 men in killed, wounded, and prisoners. Unfortunately, at this stage the want of discipline in General Early's force proved its ruin. They took to plundering their enemy's camps, and, making no preparation against the possibility of another attack from an army which they conceived to be utterly routed, they laid themselves open, as easy victims, to the reprisals which Gm. Sheridan, who had come late upon the field, vigorously initiated. The artillery, caissons, and ambulances, all huddled together in inextricable confusion, fell an easy prey to some 25 Federal horsemen who were adventurous enough to dash in among them and to shoot down the horses attached to the guns. Mr Lincoln is un. questionably greatly indebted to General Sheridan, who did more, by arresting what would otherwise have been to the Federals one of the most disgrace. ful defeats of the war, to insure his re-election, than all the orators who have taken the stump in his favour from Maine to California. But, although the Federal General regained hid lost 18 pieces, and took from General. Early 23 Confederate pieces in addition, it is indisputable that the Federal loss iu mon far outweighs that of the Confederates. The Valley is further than ever from being in the Federal grasp; and although General Sheridan has taken pride in applying the torch to private property with a recklessness of cruelty which is unsurpassed even in the annals of this ruthless war, it is not in his power sensibly to diminish the abundant wealth of this favoured region after one of the most lavish harvests which the Valley has ever seen. It is more than ever necessary for Mr Lincoln to keep a large army, and more especially a considerable force of cavalry, in the Valley to protect Washington, and I seo little prospect of Grant being able to withdraw from Sheridan that fine body of cavalry which was so active in the neighbourhood of Richmond during the months of May, June, and July, and without which Grant's operations against Richmond and Petersburg promise to yield but little fruit. I have just returned from a long ride along the Confederate lines upon the north side of the River James, which commences at Chaffin's Bluff, and run north words for many miles till they strike the Charles City.road,immediately to the north of which lies the White Oak swamp, a spongy morass, which occupies all the space between the Charles City-road and the Chiokahominy River. With a full experi ence of the hazards which await those who assume Naval and Military Intelligence. The East India and London Shipping Company's screw steamship Calcutta, Capt. J. H. Wright, the arrival of which in the Channel, with troops on board from Madras, was announced in The Sun of yesterday, anchored at Spithead yesterday morn ing, and at five p.m. steamed into Portsmouth Harbour and was berthed alongside the dock,where she will. land the troops this morning under the superintendence of the military authorities. The invalids,of 89 men, 3 women, and four children, forwarded by Government steamer o the Royal y willal Victoria be consis tin g Military Hospital, at Netley. The time expired troops, consisting of 40 men, 10 t women, and 14 children, will be sent on to the depots of their respective regiments. Four soldiers died during the passage home from Madras. The Achilles, iron f r i ga t e , C ap t. E. W. V a n. sittart, is ordered to be tried in the usual manner over the measured mile in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth. This will give a reliable result of the ship's actual rata of speed at her seagoing draught of water, the only condition at which a ship's trial can be made to render it of any value. Yesterday Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., Port Admiral and Naval Commander.in-chief at Portsmouth, embarked on board the Sprightly steamer, which conveyed him to Spithead, where he visited and officially inspected the Achilles. The ship, with her four square-rigged waste has an ex tremely ugly and crowded appearance aloft, as seen from a distance. The Hector, iron frigate, Capt. Preedy, C. 8., has sent up her topmasts alongside Portsmouth Dock• yard in her course of refit and alteration in her rig from her double composite lower yards and stumpy topgallantmasts to ordinary full.sizsd single top.. sails, topgallantsails, and royals on her fore and main masts. Her mizenmast will carry fore and aft sails only. The Hector is to be, to a certain extent, apparently an experimental ship, and among other things to be tried is a new arrange ment for tatting the ship's anchors, the proposi. tion, it is said, of a naval officer. Our dockyard officials should really be competent to carry out efficiently the disposition of a ship's anchor gear without calling in extraneous aid for the perform ance of duties which they, as dockyard officers, are specially appointed and paid to perform. Some correspondence is passing between White.. hall and Portsmouth Dockyard relative to the Royal Alfred frigate, now receiving her coating of armour plates at No, 3 dock of that yard. It appears that a proposition has been made to the Admiralty to alter the whole intended system of plating the ship, and, instead of giving her a , complete coating of 41in. plates (which, by the way, are already partly on the vessel), to give her a 12-in. iron belt at the water line, with a square iron box of great thick. ness amidships, capped by two turrets. Without offering any opinion as to the merits of such a plan, we presume the cost already incurred by the Royal Alfred since she was first laid down as a screw two-decker and reconstructed as an ar• mour-plated frigate, together with the fact that the ship is of wood, will cause the Admiralty to reject all idea of any second reconstruction or conversion in her ease. The correspondence, how ever, is still going on, and a sketch of the proposed second reconstruction of the ship his been received at Whitehall from Portsmouth yard. The screw steam storeship Fox, 2, Commander Thomas C. Pullets, is now alongside the coal depot • %,e-_. SHIRE. 0- _ 1 'Ales for their courtesy in lending them their range, anti proposed three cheers for Colonel M'Murdo. The proposition was adopted with enthusiasra, and the proceedings terminated. CHESHIRE RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—The fourth annual meeting was held on Saturday at Chester, the Marquis of Westminster in the chair, The report showed that the ex penditure this bearexceeded that of last year by £3O; that the Cheshire subscription to the National Rifle Association was £B3 18s 6d, being £9l4s more than last year; that the Earl of Lichfield had promised to allow ten volunteers from Staffordshire to compete on the Roodee next season ; and that the association was prosperous. Mr Tollemache, was appointed president for 1865; Earl Grosvenor, chair man of council; and Mr Laird, M.P., vice-chairman. Railway and other Companies. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN- The total expenses of this company's railways and the South Yorkshire, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from July 1 to December 4, 1861, amounted to £171,262 as against £174,319 tlr the corresponding period of 1863. The propor'ion of the South Ju-cti , n receipts accruing to this company from July 1 to December 4 amounted to £16,518 as against £15,2d1 for the corresponding period of 1663, and the expenses to £8,671 as against £7,318. /. PRICE ..4d STAMPED ....5d attended their erection. The various arches and other portions of the exterior brickwork were then demolished by • a series of small explosions, and finally the three great entrances had successively to succumb to the engineers " petard." The lest was the southern entrance, the victim of yesterday morning's electricity, and it now lies a mere heap of rubbish, to attest the skill of the Royal Engineers, the potency of little over a hundred pounds of gunpowder, and the admirable fitness for mining purposes of our friend the corporal's beau ful little frictional machine. The Central Anti-Malt Tax Association. A meeting of the council of this association was held at the Bridge House Hotel last week, for the purpose of con sidering the best means of renewing with all possible acti vity the agitation for the removal of this most obnoxious tax in the ensuing Parliamentary session. Amongst those present were Messrs Punnett (West Kent), Eley (East Kent), Hodsoll (West Kent), T. Arkely (Gloucester), Hobbs Collett (Barks), Simpson (Yorkshire), Marshall (Lincolnshire), Williams (Berks), W. Beadell and F. Beadell (Suffolk), E. Gardner and J. S. Gardner (Suffolk), Plumber (Wilts), Richardson (Lincolnshire), Burdett (Derbyshire), Chapman (Midland Counties Asso ciation), Rowley (Yorkshire), Osborne (Leicestershire dis trict of the Midland Counties Association), Rev. J, Linton (Huntingdonshire), Bacon (Sussex), Brandram (Herts), Frampton (Berks), Hanley (Lincolnshire), Mr Kintrca, (the Parliamentary agent). After the routine business of reading the minutes and passing the accounts for the last half year, which showed only a small balance to the credit of the a,sociatioa, a long discussion ensued as to the best practicable method of opening the campaign for the session of 1865. The dele gates present from the various counties reported the strong desire and determination of their constituents to prosecute the object of the Central Association in the most energetic manner, and it was resolved-1. To hold a public meet ing of the farmers of England, to be hell in the Free mason's Tavern in London, on a day immediately preceding the re-assembling of Parliament. 2. To urge upon all who have at heart the repeal of the malt duty the para mount necessity of having that meeting numerously and influentially attended, so as to give weight and authority to the movement both with Parliament and the country, as well as with the Government. 3. To publish another number of " Anti-Malt Tax Circulars" early in January, for distribution amongst the various local associations —Mr Osborne undertaking to purchase 1,000 copies for the Midland Counties Association, and other delegates present agreeing to take the same number as before. 4. To organise a large deputation to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer immediately atter the meeting of parliament. 5. To make the necessary arrangements for bringing the question before Parliament prior to the budget, so as to avoid any possible antagonism with rival claimants for reduction of taxation. 6. To promote and encourage the renewal of district public meetings in the various counties, and to forward petitions to Parliament for signa. ture. The thanks of the meeting were given to the constituen cies of Berkshire, West Suffolk, and North Warwickshire, for their conduct towards their members on this question, which it is hoped and expected will be imitated in other counties. Mr Kintrea was again returned as a Parliamentary agent for the next session. The meeting was of a very enthusiestio and resolute character, We understand that since this meeting several gentlemen have subscribed £lOO each towards raising a sufficient fund for next year's campaign. THE VOLUNTEERS. NINETEENTH MIDDLESEX RIFLES. The ceremony of presenting prizes to the successful com petitors in this corps took place last night in Westminster Hall, in the presence of a large number of spectators. Licut.-Col. Hughes, the commandant of the corps, pre sided, and there was also present Col. M'Murdo. Major Oxley officiated, and Mrs Oxley delivered the prizes, which were very numerous and valueble, to the different recipients. Lieut.- Col. II UGHES, in opening the proceedings, referred to the loss the corps had sustained on the retirement of Lieut. Cul. Bathurst, Capt. Martineau, awl. Capt. Roebuck. With reference to the last mentioned officer (whoee name was received with rounds of enthusiasm), ho went on to say in the 19th society distinctions had never weighed in the choice of officers in comparison with real merit. '1 hey had had many officers from a class from which officers were not generally taken. It had been thought a mistake and would not answer, but he could say that it had answered, and admirably too, and that ne c nee- had ever more thoroughly and conscicritiouely dune his work than Capt. Roebuck. Three lieutenants and an ensign, finding the y had not time to fulfil their duties as officers, had returned to the racks, and had earned the 30s fur their corps—an example which he (Col. Hughes) would follow himself if he found he could not give the time which the command of the regiment in volved. He then referred to the loss of the range of the corps. A more serious loss could hardly befall:a regiment, and it was becoming a serious question for all metropolitan corps. They lost their range in June, in the very middle of the shooting season. If their range was stopped there was no safety for any of the ranges round London ; for not only had they never had an accident to a man on the range, but they had never had an accident of any kind. In spite of that, from the mere exercise of the will of one landowner in the neighbourhood, their range had been shut up. It was a great misfortune to them, and it should be a warning to the whole force. If the country wanted the volunteers to learn to shoot, it should bear a little with the noise of firing ball cartridge. So many ranges were being stopped round Lon don that some general measure should be adopted. Either the Government would 'have to provide ranges, or some equally efficient measure would have to be passed. The statistics of the shooting of the corps showed that in 1862 130 members only had commenced class shooting. In 1863 that number had increased to 268 ; and in 1864 to 283. The number that completed class firing were in 1862 87 ; in 1863, 171; and in 1864, 205. The 205 who had completed class shooting were out of the total of 489 officers and volun. teers. The total enrolled strength this year was 649, against 643 in 1863; but as 37 more men had earned the 30s this year, he looked upon that as a satisfactory set-off. The prizes were then delivered by Mrs Oxley. At the conclusion of the presentation, Colonel M'MuRDo, who was loudly applauded, said he had been invited to attend that meeting, and it was NVith great pleasure he did so. He would address a few words to the members of the 19th to congratulate them upon the pro ceedings of the evening. To see the 19th once more under arms, to hear of its general prosperity, to witness the dir• tribution of the prizes, and to hear how they had won, was to him a great pleasure. He experienced also great satis faction in seeing round him the supporters of the corps. It was an important thing that each corps should have its sup porters among the public. (Cheers.) It was supported on the one hand by the Government end on the other by the people, bat the encouragement given by the Government was surpassed by that given by the people. The force as a citizen army would always be considered as a supplement to the regular army. At first it no doubt crested some jea lousy on the part of the army, it being overlooked that the volunteers were formed for and would be confined to the ree polling of an enemy from our shores. But whatever jealousy had existed, he was happy to say it had all been long dissi pated, and the army were ready and willing to give the volunteers all the assistance they could. (Cheers.) He then went on to say there was scarcely a corps that had not its chaplain, and if that had not been so he believed the move ment would not have prospered as it had done with a large section of the people. At all times armies had sought to attach to them their chaplains, whose prescriptions gave to the soldiers physical force. There had scarcely been a battle fought, but that the presence of tho chaplain had been found beneficial and encouraging to the man who know that in a short time he would be launched into eternity. lie then congratulated the corps upon the manner in which they had conducted their shooting, notwithstanding the difficulties they had encountered when their range was closed in June last. Both he and Lord De Grey were aware of the fact, and they did all they could to remedy it, but were unsuccessful. He quite agreed with what Colonel Hughes has said, that nobody had been hurt, and regretted exceedingly that there was no act of Parliament to prevent volunteers being at the mercy of a parcel of fools who, from freak of temper, closed their ranges. (Cheers and laughter.) Colonel Hughes had referred to the first inspection he (Colonel M'Alurdo) had made of the 19th Middlesex. It was remarkable, because it was the first inspection he ever made of any corps. But that inspection showed him what he was to expect from the volunteers, and he was not wrong. because in the December of that year there were 18,000 men enrolled, and in 18 months afterwards there wore 100,000 enrolled. (Cheers.) With reference to what had been termed by the press undue praise to volunteers, he confessed he had sought to avoid that. It was necessary when officers inspected corps that they should say something of praise or encouragement, as the force frequentlywa s divided taking into place, many it parts ap P a T n h d i s they and were inspections, eared, no doub t, that p raise was continuousl y besto wed upon the men ; although when it was considered that men turned out to do duty at night till they became perfect in their drill they deserved praise. (Cheers.) He then re marked upon the importance of corps keeping up their drill and shooting, and fearlessly asserted that the 19th had, in this particular, ably acquitted themselves— (cheers) ; and concluded by wishing the corps continued prosperity. Lieut. Col. HUGHES said he had nearly forgotten to men tion that the 19th were much indebted to the 4th Surrey PNEUMATIC DESPATCH. Yesterday the entire road traffic between Chancery-lane and the top of Gray's-inn-lane was stopped and diverted round by King's-road and Hatton-garden on the one hand, and Chancery •lane and Castle-street, Holborn, on the other, to enable the contractors and their workmen to excavate the roadway for the laying down of the pneumatic tubes, in continuation of the line from Eusten-square. The opera tions for this purpose are being carried on day and night, with a view to the proposed completion of the line end its opening for traffic to th© Post-office before the end of January. The requisite Parliamentary powers having been obtained last session, it is not intended to wait, as was at first thought desirable, fur the construction of the Holborn-valley viaduct, by which means the pneu matic tube would have been carried continuously en a level, but to sink the tube under the Valley from Holborn to Snow-hill, it being perfectly practicable by the atmos pheric system to work any ordinary load up or down these. inclines. From Snow-hill the line will pass under Newgate street into the Post-office yard, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, where the city station will be established, the site having been granted by the Post-office authorities. The works will be carried forward with as much rapidity as possible, so that the public traffic may be interfered with and suspended as little as possible. Telegraphic wires are to be laid down simultaneously with the tube, for its safe working from ter minus to terminus, and there is to be an intermediate station adjacent to the Inns of Court Hotel, now constructing, in Holborn. LONDON AND LIVERPOOL HOTEL. The first ordinary genet - al meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, King-street, Cheapside Col. Knox, M.P., in the chair. The Secretary read the report, which stated that on the directors taking possession of the premises in Liverpool in May last they commenced a complete reorganist;.tinn of the management of the hotel, which had largely increae:d its business, and which there was every reason to believe w0m,.... 1. render it one of the most extensive and profitable hotels is the kingdom. The profits during the last six months had been nearly 30 per cent. on the paid-up capital, and there was a progressive increase in the gross receipts of more than 20 per cent. The directors recommended that a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent per annum on the paid-up capital be+ declared. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said they were able to do what few hotel companies had: been able to do in the first six months of their existence — pay a satisfactory dividend. Some dissatisfaction and sur— prise had been expressed by one or two shareholders at the , refusal of the Stock-Exchange to quote the shares of their company. This was not because two-thirds of the shares' were not taken up, but in consequence of ,the difference between the prospectus and the articles of association. This the directors offered to remedy, but they had as yet hoard nothing more from the St , 'ck Exchange on the subject. Mr STANILAND seconded the adoption of the report, which was agreed to.. The dividend was then declared, and the business con ciuded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors, Alleged Case of Poisoning at Manchester. At the Manchester Police-court, on Saturday, Ann Car— rigan, a middle aged woman, was charged with the wilful murder, by poison, of Ann Conway. Sergeant Torr, of 1.1.:: detective police, raid he apprehended the prisoner in Jeri vy-street, on suspicion of administering poison to Ann Conway, 13 oehdale-rogd, in November, lie charged her with administcling a liquid containing arsenic, and she said, " Oh dear, oh dear, who says I have murdered her ? I only gave het what she told Inc to." The prisoner asked witness, ‘• Have you sun the recipe ?" (from which she alleged Ike liquid was prepared.) Witness replied no. The prisoner said, "It was in the house somewhere; I was with her the night before she died." Ellen Spark, Rochdale-road, said the deceased, who was 43 years old, lived with her, She was taken ill cn the Friday haw° ehe died, which was on Tuesday week. She had been in delicate health since wits• ness knew r, but was never rcally ill. She ht came worse on the 25th November, and died on the 29th; she had lived with witness three months, and Nas not married. The pH,- soner, who lived in Jersey-street, came to tea deceased on the Sunday before her death. The prisoner had been in the habit of going out with her, and appeared to be a friend of hers. She was very ill, but had had no surgeon; no medi cine had been administered to her; she had taken nothing but her food. The prisoner and witness wont to her bed side and asked her how she was; she replied she was very unwell. Witness said she should have medical advice, and the prisoner remarked so also, but the deceased said " Oh, no, I have been as ill before many times." The prisoner asked witness if she could get a recommendation to the Royal Infirmary ? Witness replied t hat she had no doubt she could at Sheldon's, in Swan-street. The prisoner re marked " We will wait and see how she goes on to-morrow and Tuesday, and then you will perhaps get her one." Wit ness came down stairs and left the prisoner and the deceased together. The deceased had vomited four times on Friday. and complained of her head and chest. She was of sober habits, and was quite sober when she went to bed on Thursday night, On the Sunday the prisoner came down stairs after having been 10 minutes with the deceased. Witness asked if deceased had ever been so bad before, pri soner said "Oh, yes; it is her old complaint." On Tuesday morning witness went to the prisoner's house, and told her that Ann Conway was dead. Witness had found her head in bed about half-past 8 o'clock. A week before the de ceased was taken ill, she had at witness's suggestion sent for a box of Whelpton's pills, and taken many of them. When witness told the prisoner of deceased's death, she seemed shocked and surprised, and asked witness how she had found the deceased. Witness told her that she had found her in bed. She then asked the prisoner "Havo you Ann's club cards P" The prisoner replied " They are at our house." 'Witness said "Then they are not in her box." The prisoner told witness that she had been up to the deceased's brother and told him of deceased's death, upon which he said, " Oh dear, what shall I do I" and pri soner replied to him, " Don't put yourself out of the way s as there is sufficient money in the club to bury her." ness said, " The brother will want to draw the club money, or if there is any bother the club will bury her." The pri soner remarked that the club would have nothing at all to do with it—she:had entered the deceased's name, and she should draw the money ; it had been paid at her house. An inquest was held on the day of the death. A week after theAeceased came to live with witness the prisoner brought a large glass bottle with a small neck, and said it contained medicine for the deceased. 'Witness had seen the deceased take medicine out of that, bottle several times. After thiW bottle had been emptied by the deceased it was washed and usud,by witness's husband as an oil bottle. The prisoner subsequently asked for it, and he: gave her two catsup bottles instead. A day or two afte:wards she brought the two bottles fall of something, and put them on the table for: the deceased, telling her she brought her some medicine. Ann Conway took the contents of these two bottles in the course of a month. The prisoner had the bottles again, filled. them, and brought them a second time. D eceased said, " Oh, yev have brought my medicine. :The pr isoner said " Yes,'" and loft them. Deceased took the contents of those bottles[ except what remained in them when witness handed them to the police. They were the n in the sam e s t a t e as w h oa the deceased last too k the medicine, except that witness had. wiped off several bits of something white on the neck of; one of them. They were of a hard substance, and each wail about the size of a pin's head. The prisoner took away the body of the deceased the night after the inquest. Wit. nese had not noticed what effect followed deceased taking the medicine, and had never seen her take more than one dose a day. Deceased generally complained of her head and chest. When witness found her dead she was not at all distorted. On the day before her death she said she felt better—free from pain, but weak. Witness never saw any prescription or recipe. The bottles were handed by the police to Dr Fletcher, Lever-street, on Thursday evening. Ile said they were champagne bottles, and contained a small quantity of fluid, kiss than a teaspoonful. He had made a preliminary analysis, and had found a precipitate which indicated arsenic. The reaction in testing in ono bottle was more intense than in the other. The difference in the quantity of arsenic tended to show that it was not likely that the mixture had been made from a prescription. The tests ho had applied were pure,. but there was plenty of liquid left for a thorough analysis. The presidi ng magis trite asked if there was any medicine used at a ll corre sponding with the liquid in the bottles. D r Fl e t c h er sa id there was a preparation ofnrsenic used medicinally, but that would not indicate a reaction to the extent he han found in the liquid in the bottles. The prisoner was remanded until Saturday, BORDER CIVILISATION.—The Walkerton (Canada, West) Herald mentions that two bears were lately noticed taking a stroll through that plaoe in the evening. As no thing was Carried off, it is regarded as a reconnoitring ear!» dition, to be turned to wont hereafter, NEW WORK, EDITED BY LIEUT. WARNEFORD, R.N. This Day, price 23., Never before Printed, SK ED A D D L E. London : George Vickers, Angel-court, Strand. - 1